i. don't really want to go. to thank you for information which helped prevent terror attacks on st petersburg during the holiday. week 12 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes moments after. marty dozens more are being treated in hospital. u.s. presidential candidate multi billionaire michael bloomberg apologizes after his team used prison labor to promote his election. is joining us this is the weekly. we start this hour with breaking news for. trump

for information we help to prevent new year's terrorist attacks on st petersburg has details. russia's federal security service detain 2 people that were allegedly planning to carry out terrorist attacks in the city of st petersburg now according to the security service these people in question were planning terrorist attacks in crowded places during the new year celebrations it was also reported that avid and shedding light on some of their intentions was also found the scene well they were being detained russian federal security service a mage's these a rest on the 27th of december following information that was received from their american colleagues now some may say that it was a significant step in the relationships between the 2 countries and in

a telephone conversation the russian president vladimir putin thanked his american counterpart donald trump for this piece of data that helped prevent these attacks they prevented what could have been a tragic catastrophe yes the city of st petersburg russia is north and capital is packed with people during new year holidays so this piece of information how to prevent a horrible situation indeed both presidents discussed a range of pressuring issues they agreed to continue cooperation in the fight against terrorism actually the last time they spoke was in july and in person they match back in june at the g. 20 summit in japan at the time the meeting was said to be quite long and productive so it seems that both sides trying to keep the line of contact open. i'm joined in the number chris phillips former head of the u.k.'s national

counter-terrorism security office good evening chris. we one of the worst scenarios when you trying to keep people safe new year celebrations big crowds people people go to a very fortunate piece of information that they got to hope avoid an attack. yeah and what it does as well is that we live in such an interconnected world now intelligent sources of the us of obviously go are also dealing with people and that are planning. in. and i think we're going to see more of this because because of the use of internet telephones these interconnected groups able to strike anywhere across the world is this normally how things work we can see you know countries at loggerheads politically not giving an inch and trying to hurt each other with with sanctions and whatever but that would they still be behind the scenes working together when it comes to

things like national security and fighting terrorism well i think everyone with holds information that could save innocent people's lives should be ashamed of themselves and and yes i know for a fact that information and intelligence does get shared across but of course you know there is a bigger scheme in all this as well and sometimes politics does get in the way of helping each other up but any potential attack on a crowded place such as this you know there's no there's no reason whatsoever that the intelligence shouldn't be shared. just how extensive this anti terror cooperation globally is there a kind of an and unspoken alliance of countries everybody together. yes very much so although happens in different levels so for example we've got a thing called the 5 hours which is the u.s. u.k. canada australia new zealand all share intelligence quite closely european

countries often don't have such good intelligence services and often rely on the 5 eyes. rush obviously has got its own sources and its own people across the world and whenever you get something like this where it's a. as a say in the innocent civilians i think. the sharing is much better. you know you can only hope this it grows in the future because. terrorism is not going to go away we're going to be faced with this for many years probably generations to come and it will be spread out and it will be it will be attacking pretty much every country across the world so it's vital that we do work together intelligence agencies to stop this cancer do you think that cooperation on that level can perhaps be a springboard for 2 nations to work together better on other levels perhaps develop some sense of trust goodness for goodness sake we'd all like that would be

a great new year a new year thing for all of the all of the world their countries actually trusted each other a bit more. but of course that comes with a history. and a lot of things are going to be right across the world terrorism is a is a bit of a one off you know we've seen i mean this was planned to be new year's day i think you know specific big highlights in the in the year where there's henniker today we've seen an attack in the states we actually u.k. but not often you know last easter weeks or it's actually 3 lancaster so big set piece of events like this are always easy to target and you can only hope countries work together not only against terrorism but the vigor thing actually possibly even bigger than terrorism is organized crime because organized criminals are wreaking havoc across the world at the moment we've seen people murdered in london and other countries recently a lot to do with drugs and of course this is this is

a big problem for all countries. it's just it's been a fascinating subject we will get to talk about that at some later stage many thanks for now though chris phillips former head of the u.k.'s national council national counterterrorism security office that. the situations continue into what caused a passenger plane to crash shortly after taking off from. exxon killing 12 people dozens were injured in the incident on friday including children these pictures show the the rescue operation investigators are considering 3 possible causes of the tragedy pilot error technical malfunction and bad weather is how events unfolded. it is a. good. read

in some way look at the recent discussion with us. as the shows it was a boarder at the airport he would. agree with. the did the mention of drug abuse or. even god knows how many lives in a given that i had only been with. him that i should just let folks strong jolt on the left wing literally seconds later the plane began to rock back and forth like a boat i began to tighten my belt panic doret had begun that children had started crying when the plane began to go down as look at it was clear that would definitely go into the ground so i braced myself for impact then the sewing the mergence the door was open so we jumped on the wing and began slipping because it

was icy we helped each other to get down. to you. geoffrey thomas from airline ratings dot com gave her sister all some what might have gone wrong early indications point to possible causes one is that as we can see snow sleet snow everywhere it was very very cold icing conditions and it may well have been that the plane was not correctly d.-i still not do i stood all and if there's of buildup of ice on the wing as soon as the plane takes off you're going to have a situation where you're the lift over the top of the wing the air over the top of the wing is disturbed therefore you lose lift the plane or you reach now 2 to 40 feet and then crash back to earth. and the other thing we but there's

a possibility there was an engine problem we know the aircraft reached takeoff speed of about 175 miles an hour and then quickly that speak quickly to within a 2nd or 2 of takeoff back to a 148 and that's when all the data was lost. so possible engine problem possible icing problem on the wings. the us democratic presidential candidate michael bloomberg has apologized after his campaign use prison labor to promote his election message female inmates were employed to call up voters although bloomberg unself denies he knew what was happening we only learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hired them imagine being so reach you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you don't

even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. rita reading we sad indeed when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor we did know about it and we never would have allowed it we don't believe in this practice and we immediately stopped working with pro com and the people who hired them so how do you do it pay someone to pay someone to tell them my bloomberg is a big spender he was last to do in the presidential race and he has already outspent all the other democrat candidates on campaign advertising i mean the guy has so much money he doesn't seem to have the time to check what he spent a good dog but they his credit michael bloomberg did promise america more work just. because. they can get it. for president jobs

creator. problems. right america more jobs even if you don't particularly want them what makes it much much worse is that many of the prisons in the states a private run for profit and there are laws that force people to work so if you are in a jail and you are told to work you have to you'll be punished sometimes they pay you as much as $20.00 a month that's right $20.00 a month now here's the irony mike roomba a 1000000000 there one of the richest people in america was essentially paying for what is a slave labor to cool people to apparently tell them that easy good guy wait the bloomberg is he was paying someone to pay someone to tell everyone what a good guy he is trump says he wants to run the nation like he's running is business god help us. everybody says stuff that comes back to bite them

but when billionaires do it it's generally an order of magnitude more cream it gets . worse the further you dig when he launched his campaign his media bloomberg news sent out a letter to thousands of its journalists pledging to uphold its principle of not investigating its own this is the sort of person mike is mike bloomberg started as a middle class kid to work his way through college and built a business from a single room to a global entity creating tens of thousands of could paying jobs along the way there . you probably shouldn't but he didn't let me continue he became richer year after year he made really a selling bank is you do chris lee price try that little gadget the same bankers who threw under the old greed set off the 2008 financial crash depriving tens of millions of people of own lives of life savings and jobs. vote michael bloomberg

for president. about all the week's top stories after the break. it's like the child in the room it's impulsivity it's narcissism it's us versus them it's fear the prefrontal cortex it's empathy it's compassion it's thinking about the future in terms of what we do today that's where we need to make our decisions based from from the prefrontal cortex unfortunately when we eat the modern diet of our planet or when we watch the news or we spend too much time online we lock in to be a make believe we lock in to the child in the room and we're not able to make good

decisions. wow i'm feeling 2020 should be. a machete attack on a synagogue on such as you know as the new york state has left 5 people injured 2 of them in a critical condition. the

attack during a hammock a party police arrested a suspect soon after the incident counter-terrorism unit is munching the situation so the attacker was a black male the motive remains unclear new york governor called the attack to domestic terrorism. we have seen or not in new york this is violence spurred by hate it is massive violence and i consider this an act of domestic terrorism but a lot of. semitism. medicare acts in the area. completely unacceptable we need in this specially during this time of peace and we don't understand you know what the motivation is for all of this is just pure hatred. the attack for has a spike in hate crimes against the jewish community in the region there been 7 anti semitic interns reported in new york city this week alone and less than

a month ago a shooting at a kosher supermarket in jersey city left 4 people dead gideon levy a direct scholar miss said nothing can justify such acts of violence. first of all there is no all told to the solution i don't want to use the word fighters solution god forbid there is no law because that is immaterial has many many faces and you see it coming from many their reactions and with many different visions we put everything in one basket but this does not mean that every scene can be approach in the same way israelis believe the the world is against us and anti semitism is serious as it is is many times also used for political purposes but obviously there is a central schalke in the end this of this kind of nobody can justify and nothing can justify this kind of violence the policy of israel they occupation their

brutality is fueling. some of the anti semitic movements many anti semites are using the police of israel as an excuse for their disability. has been a sharp increase in u.k. weapons sales to saudi arabia over the last 5 years despite london signing up to a treaty to prevent exports to rights abuses oxfam which calculated the rise says it's deeply concerned about the way the weapons have been used in the conflict in yemen according to the charity the u.k. has license sales worth nearly 6 and a half 1000000000 pounds to 8 members of the saudi coalition over the last 5 years that's more than in the 5 years before its side the treaty and the treaty that more than 100 countries signed up to it regulates the arms trade in order to prevent human suffering the british government is also keen to stress its importance when

it signed up. the a.t.t. is the only legally binding treaty regulating and promoting legitimate and responsible trade in conventional arms he remains a unique and valuable instrument when the arms trade treaty came into effect and the u.k. with a real champion of that treaty unfortunately sales to countries that we in yemen are party to not war in yemen have actually increased and i think this is the signal. here yemen world's worst humanitarian crisis right now and the u.k. i am far from kind of living up to the treaty n and the word is that treaty has has continued to say oh countries involvement conflict where we know international tammy know is has been disregarded. the pressure mounting the u.k. is now to suspend the sale of weapons to saudi arabia jan the court of appeal said

that they were a lawful of of the government is expected to appeal the decision of the supreme court of the rabies intervention in yemen started in 25th thing to 5 to 3 rebels who they say a terrorist but it's the level of civilian casualty the become a major cause of concern. from says is clear evidence riyadh house committees human rights violations and yet

. the evidence is really overwhelming and that there's been consistent violations of international law and and as you say the case was really clear. that the government needed to you know if it was going to continue to license weapons had to be clear about whether there was a pattern of violation in that violation and it was clear that so i find that high that that system will be appellant and i think it's. you know very sad that the government have to have try and chosen to appeal this decision and wish to continue to sell weapons that have been used in a war that is causing untold poverty and harm and destruction fed the people of yemen. it's a tradition of the holiday season for world leaders heads of state a major organizations to deliver the annual greetings usually wrap up the passing

year and generally express hope for a prosperous and happy future seems this time there are a few peculiar messages saskia taylor explains. christmas the time of year when people gather together to celebrate the bonds of friendship and family as a side note also a very awkward parried for the brits have to regulate engage in. i contact except well wishes and feign merriment all at the same time sorry this is not my weekly therapy session but anyway we've all grown tired of repeating the same old merry christmas and in a bid to keep the good old yuletide going and make it all trendy and 21st century all the world over people are getting creative with the traditional greeting sometimes though they know how to best put it misjudge the mood while some bake gingerbread houses we do so i get to go with them $35.00 jet merry christmas to christian soldiers and to all those celebrating around the world i'm

a big fan of gingerbread but one in the shape of an f. $35.00 jet which are regularly used to conduct our strikes over gaza just hours after the i.d.f. admitted that a raid in the gaza strip to 9 members of a single family was a mistake i think i'll give it a miss as apparently will many others yes nothing says merry christmas like a freaking war machine all you're missing is some gingerbread bombs to drop on some gingerbread palestinians maybe the i.d.f. had a brainstorm session with donald trump because his festive wishes also struck a song but tone i think someone forgot to tell him that joy is a contractual obligation in december on behalf of the entire tribe we wish everyone a joyous merry christmas but can you blame him at the end of the year we're all tired poor thing couldn't even hide the fact he was reading off a prompter though he does have other things on his plate i suppose like his possible removal from office even is usually bellicose tweets have been a bit cluster of late no caps lock no explanation marks that kind of thing also

jumping in head fast to the whirlpool of christmas for parts us customs and border protection they congratulated santa for not scaling and he was sorry chimneys this year and applying for his visa on time like you'd expect it went down like a sack of presents hundreds of kids in texas are spending christmas eve taking care of each other freezing cold insufficient food water medical attention hygiene it resources no contact with their parents many as young as one hope he brought gifts for these kids. he missed the stop and across the pond things want much better queen elizabeth the 2nd film test 67th christmas speech you think after all these years she'd have it down pat but it's been a tough year for poor queenie what with prince andrew clearly not being a natural in t.v. interviews harry marrying an american divorcee said divorcée crying on t.v. about being bullied by the very people who pay the heating bill of buckingham palace harry saying that he and william are fighting harry being

a climate activist while jetting around a private jets her story not my weekly therapy session so instead of the usual merry christmas one and all they got this and midterm says you have filled. with small steps can make a world of difference. a very legal way of defining being on the brink of a constitutional crisis our fingers crossed hoping your son didn't spend night sweating away with a convicted sex offender and then the icing sugar on top of the your blog the un decided to pick the day christ was born to talk about how motherhood is a real chore which will apparently leave you poor bond employed and most likely gender discriminated against i wonder if mary and joseph consider these downsides as the road to bethlehem so yeah it's tough to know how to wish people while at this time of year but i don't want to miss out on the fun so mary day the christ was born but only if you recognize christ i'm not forcing anything on you so let's just say it's a winter holiday if the time winter doesn't offend this is

a safe space after all totally up to you how you want to celebrate this day or not your call. and here's some breaking news of texas where a shooting is occurred at a church report 2 people are being killed one person is said to be in a critical condition this is a developing story we'll bring you some more information coming. and that wraps it up for this news hour to join us for more including more on the story in 30 minutes . the world is driven by shaped by one person with those words.

no dares thinks. we dare to ask. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision lotos sheltered lives every thing came to a complete. the day that i was right to be instructed you know told to shut up what they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birth think you know if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing thing tat happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen

from women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is more likely to get the victim punished in the offender i had an almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave that up to report a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to pry up. whether that's man or when. taxes are not going to do it you have to go right to the root of things its assets and debts at the balance sheet balance sheets is what they should talk about and that's where we can be clever because taxation is the dumb why of trying to get the wealth back from the from the wealthy. is you'll media a reflection of reality. in

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from running 2028 with me max kaiser and stacy herbert as we look ahead to all the excitement of the 2020 electoral votes every episode we dig deep into something new this time we're going to look at the wealth tax stacy that's right we're looking at all the economic policies being presented by the democratic candidates many of them are very radical bernie sanders says billionaires should not exist and to find out whether or not they should we have a guest with us dr michael hudson and professor steve keen steve we'll start with you 1st well i have a very complicated position on this because part of my research is into. what's called the financial instability hypothesis that explains where the 2008 process came from.